Hyperion Workforce Planning - 100K employees - 11.1.2.2

Hi to all,
I am facing quite a challenge on this one. My clients requirements for a budget/simulation employee application is to load all existing employees into Hyperion workforce Planning.
I know it sound odd loading all the 100K employees from Peoplesoft, I finished installing Workforce, next step is to start stress testing by loading 10K employees,20K etc.
Any of you has similar experiences with large employee numbers? Any Issues with the existing employees forms?
Please share your thoughts.
Regards to All
yannis

If it is the default admin account then there shouldn't be a problem because the native SID should stay the same.
If it is a different native admin account then this will change and you would have to update it in the HSP_USERS table.
Sometimes it is easier to log into planning on the source environment, update the application owner to be admin, create an application on your target environment with admin, then migrate.
Once the migration has finished you can always change the application owner to another admin account.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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